Kiyoshi Murata    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce    Position   Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2011/10
Type	International Conference
Title	The Right to Forget/Be Forgotten: A Nearly Fundamental Human Right in the Age of Total Recall Technology
Contribution Type	Co-authored (first author)
Journal	Proceedings of CACIC 2011: I ETHICOMP LATINOAMÉRICA
Journal Type	Another Country
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.1437-1440
Author and coauthor	Kiyoshi Murata and Yohko Orito
Details	This study attempts to conceptualise the right to forget/be forgotten, which would have to be protected by a legal scheme, along with building a theoretical foundation of this individual's right and to examine the social necessity to establish the right in the current socio-technological environment. Although the mentation of forgetting as well as remembrance is observed in organisations, communities and states (Shimokobe, 2000), the study focuses on forgetting as human mentation. The right to be forgotten has recently started to be discussed (e.g. Werro, 2009) and European Commission's press release on 4 November 2010 mentioned that people should have that right when their data is no longer needed or they want their data to be deleted in the context of personal data protection (European Commission, 2010). In addition to the right to be forgotten which is centred on individuals' capability to control their own personal information on the Web as well as stored in organisational databases, the authors propose the concept of the right to forget which relates to the restriction of organisations' and individuals' ways of using personal information and, thus, the scope of which is beyond personal data protection, based on the idea that people, as individuals, have already lost the power to control the circulation of their personal information and it is extremely difficult for them to regain that power (Murata and Orito, 2008).